NVS 315 vs Quadro 600

Place in performance ranking	960	1084
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.11	0.02
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF108	GF119
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	13 December 2010 (13 years old)	10 March 2013 (11 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	$159
Current price	$118 (0.7x MSRP)	$213 (1.3x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro 600 has 450% better value for money than NVS 315.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	48
Core clock speed	640 MHz	523 MHz
Number of transistors	585 million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	19 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.24	4.184
Floating-point performance	245.76 gflops	100.4 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	145 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	14 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

1x DMS-59

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.1	2.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro 600 1.38
+55.1%

NVS 315 0.89

Quadro 600 outperforms NVS 315 by 55% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro 600 535
+54.6%

NVS 315 346

Quadro 600 outperforms NVS 315 by 55% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

Quadro 600 2049
+132%

NVS 315 883

Quadro 600 outperforms NVS 315 by 132% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.